{"id":205470,"date":"2025-08-25T22:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerians-ignore-viral-message-about-harmful-weather-conditions-from-a-non-existent-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:26:50","slug":"nigerians-ignore-viral-message-about-harmful-weather-conditions-from-a-non-existent-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerians-ignore-viral-message-about-harmful-weather-conditions-from-a-non-existent-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians, Ignore Viral Message About Harmful Weather Conditions From a Non-Existent Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>Nigerians, ignore viral message about harmful weather conditions from a non-existent agency<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A message doing the rounds on social media warns Nigerians of &#8220;an extreme form of air pollution that is harmful to health&#8221; and claims the warning is from the &#8220;Environmental Protection Agency&#8221;. But there is no agency with that name in Nigeria. The message should be ignored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has informed us that the current weather is not harmattan, but an extreme form of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508250455.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerians, ignore viral message about harmful weather conditions from a non-existent agency IN SHORT: A message doing the rounds on social media warns Nigerians of &#8220;an extreme form of air pollution that is harmful to health&#8221; and claims the warning is from the &#8220;Environmental Protection Agency&#8221;. But there is no agency with that name in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5981,8288,12629,13180,8147,257,393,6665,23022,254,13080,10412],"class_list":["post-205470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agency","tag-conditions","tag-harmful","tag-ignore","tag-message","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-nonexistent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-viral","tag-weather"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}